Intercultural dialogue and open debate reduce Islamophobia and racial hostility.

Evidence

In these sequences, Muslim need to promote communication and embrace and respect those who have diverse cultural and religious beliefs. It should be emphasized that embracing diversity leads to a more accepting and culturally diverse community rather than a racist one. Additionally, open discussions have to be promoted in order to facilitate the exchange of differing viewpoints and reveal the complexity of the problem. — Muhammad Asad Latif, The Identity of Religion Always Comes Up, 140

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes civic-republican and deliberative-democracy arguments that contact and dialogue dissolve prejudice, and connects to Qur’anic pluralism passages this author elsewhere invokes.
• SEED: Angle: ‘Dialogue Is Not a Diversity Poster’ — an essay arguing that structured disagreement, not feel-good multiculturalism, is what actually moves hostile communities.